pimped

verb

Definition of pimpednext
past tense of pimp
as in used
to take unfair advantage of a movie actress who pimped everybody she ever met as she clawed her way to the top

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pimped
  1. used
  2. abused
  3. exploited
  4. manipulated
Verb
  • Born in revolution, tempered by war This gun served in the American Civil War and was later used in many conflicts throughout the 19th century.
    Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Despite its previous bad culinary advice about pizza and rocks, AI will initially be used for the presentation of the results for queries in English about recipes and meal ideas entered on mobile devices.
    Michael Liedtke, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of used
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  • Bozanich, who did not believe that José Menendez abused the brothers, said that even if their account is accepted as true, they were still convicted of gunning down their parents in cold blood.
    Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
  • The dismissals by the social media giant targeted those who had consistently abused the system over an extended period.
    Jack Kelly, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
Definition of abused
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  • Amos’ daughter also claimed that her brother had impersonated their dad in communications, disregarded his medical needs, mishandled his finances and exploited and eroded his legacy.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Oct. 2024
  • In this case, the botnet leveraged the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), which is designed to transfer data quickly, but can be exploited to create a large DDoS, also known as a UDP flood attack.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of exploited
Verb
  • In that case, too, the final agreement wasn’t over whether their work could ever be manipulated by AI—special effects have existed in movies for a long time, after all—but whether the creator has an informed say in it.
    Jenn Brice, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Are the questions and indicators that prompted a computer system creative, or is something creative when only human hands and eyes have directly manipulated it?
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of manipulated
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